I’d be curious to quantify the subsidy from hurricanes to the higher mortgage subsidies from higher mortgage limits in states that choose to make housing expensive.
This is similar to introducing arcane metrics like for example “federal dependency” (https://sipanews.fiu.edu/2021/03/24/2021s-most-least-federal...) with nonobvious methodology, and then pretending that the states that are high in “federal dependency” ranking are actually more meaningfully “dependent” on federal government, which doesn’t actually pass muster if you look at the methodology (for example, according to their methodology, a state that collects $1k in taxes per capita, and gets $4k from federal government, while spending $5k per capita, is more dependent on federal government than a state that collects $10k in taxes, gets $10k from feds and spends $20k, which is absurd).
Basically, there is a lot of attempts at hoodwinking audience by giving impression that there is some deep quantitative analysis behind the claims, when in fact it’s all just partisan shenanigans.
These methodologies always seem to count a retiree drawing social security in Florida as federal dependency, but don’t count the northern Virginia employees of a DC lobbying firm as federal dependency.